House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back when asked about President Donald Trump’s slurring of words and seemingly mixing up Greenland with Iceland during his speech at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.
The Independent spoke to Johnson ahead of votes ahead of votes on Thursday morning, to which Johnson questioned why this was asked.
“Is this a serious question? This president sleeps about three hours a night,” Johnson said. “He outwears Everybody in this building by a factor of two or three. He’s gotten more done in the first year of his presidency than anybody in history. I cannot even believe you asked me that question.”
The president spoke at the World Economic Forum on Thursday where he railed against U.S. allies and NATO, though he said he would not use military force to take Greenland.
During that speech, he also seemed to confuse Greenland, an autonomous territory which is governed by the kingdom of Denmark, with Iceland, the nordic European nation.
“Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland, so Iceland has already cost us a lot of money,” he said of Greenland. Later, he tried to say the people of Greenland supported him.
“Until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me ‘Daddy’,” Trump said in during the conference in Davos.
The president has also shown visible signs of physical decline. During a press conference earlier this week in the White House briefing room, his voice sounded increasingly hoarse and his words were slurred.
